It was about 5 years ago that we started a research thread to look at interacting with customer devices in a retail environment. This was the genesis point of my work on what I’ve come to call “Explicit Spatial Contexts.” This topic continues to be one of the most interesting I have worked on. When I refer to a “context”, I am speaking of a context-aware computing context. In context aware computing, applications have the ability to determine context(additional information about the environment in which they are currently executing), and… [ read more ]